PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Mental Chronometry, Ender Wiggin, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Ability to solve problems, think rationally, act purposefully, acquire information, cope effectively with the environment. A sophisticated statistical technique to identify the common factors that may underlie clusters of ideas. All of them have something in common g general intelligence underlies all intelligence we have s other abilities. No g. we have multiple intelligences, they are independent from each other. (don"t need to study them all!) Refuses idea of g. intelligences not related to each other. Logic is in brain damage: even though some ability is lost, you are still able to retain other abilities. Savants: extraordinary in some ability, but way below average in other abilities (daniel, able to learn languages) Prodigies: extraordinary in some ability, average in others (jack, 7-year old performed surgery) Proposed 9 intelligences: linguistic, logical-math, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, spatial, interpersonal (people-smart), intrapersonal (self-smart), naturalist, existential. Analytical intelligence: solving problems with one solution (book smarts) Practical intelligence: solving problems with multiple solutions (street smarts)